Patents by Inventor Takayoshi Sano

Takayoshi Sano has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9375792
    Abstract: A sheet film forming roll is manufactured by processing a thin cylindrical work used as an external cylinder of the sheet film forming roll by holding the thin cylindrical work using a holding jig and machining an outer peripheral surface of the thin cylindrical work. The holding jig includes a holding member, a diameter changing unit, and a pair of circular side plates. The holding member is made of a metal and has a cylindrical shape and an elastically expandable or contractible diameter. An outside diameter of the holding member is held smaller than an inside diameter of the thin cylindrical work for insertion of the holding member into an inner periphery of the thin cylindrical work and expanded after insertion of the holding member into the inner periphery of the thin cylindrical work to hold the thin cylindrical work from an inner peripheral side of the thin cylindrical work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Tadamasa Furuya
  • Patent number: 9227249
    Abstract: A method for processing a thin cylindrical work includes holding the work using a holding jig. The jig includes a cylindrical holding member which holds the work from an inner peripheral side and a diameter changing unit which changes a diameter of the holding member. The metal holding member has an elastically expandable or contractible diameter. The outside diameter of the holding member is held smaller than an inside diameter of the work when inserted into an inner periphery of the work and is expanded after insertion. The diameter changing unit applies at least one of an axial external force in a compressing direction or an axial external force in a tensile direction to both ends of the holding member to change the diameter of the holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Tadamasa Furuya
  • Patent number: 9102094
    Abstract: A rail support device installed in a clip chain type sheet stretching apparatus configured to stretch a sheet includes a first rail support member, a second rail support member, and an arc shaped rail support member. The arc shaped rail support member is engaged with each of the connecting portions of the first and second rail support members to form a higher pair. The rail support device is symmetrical with respect to an intersection angle bisecting plane which is a plane developing in a vertical direction and including an intersection angle bisector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Satoru Nitta, Hiromu Saijyo
  • Publication number: 20150209873
    Abstract: A holding jig for a thin cylindrical work (W) includes a holding member (10, 10A, 10B) which holds the work (W) from an inner peripheral side and a diameter changing unit (25, 27) which changes a diameter of the holding member (10, 10A, 10B). The holding member (10, 10A, 10B) is made of metal and has a cylindrical shape and an elastically expandable or contractible diameter. The holding member (10, 10A, 10B) is configured with an outside diameter of the holding member (10, 10A, 10B) being held smaller than an inside diameter of the work (W) at the time of insertion into an inner periphery of the work (W) and being expanded after inserted into the inner periphery of the work (W) to hold the work (W) from an inner peripheral side of the work (W) with an outer peripheral surface in close contact with an entire inner peripheral surface of the work (W).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Takayoshi SANO, Tadamasa FURUYA
  • Publication number: 20150202725
    Abstract: A holding jig for a thin cylindrical work (W) includes a holding member (10, 10A, 10B) which holds the work (W) from an inner peripheral side and a diameter changing unit (25, 27) which changes a diameter of the holding member (10, 10A, 10B). The holding member (10, 10A, 10B) is made of metal and has a cylindrical shape and an elastically expandable or contractible diameter. The holding member (10, 10A, 10B) is configured with an outside diameter of the holding member (10, 10A, 10B) being held smaller than an inside diameter of the work (W) at the time of insertion into an inner periphery of the work (W) and being expanded after inserted into the inner periphery of the work (W) to hold the work (W) from an inner peripheral side of the work (W) with an outer peripheral surface in close contact with an entire inner peripheral surface of the work (W).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Takayoshi SANO, Tadamasa FURUYA
  • Patent number: 9073257
    Abstract: A film stretching machine includes a clip chain for holding a lateral edge of a film and stretches the film while transporting the film with the clip chain holding the film and traveling, and includes an upper reference rail disposed at an upper side for guiding the clip chain; a lower reference rail disposed at a lower side for guiding the clip chain; a plurality of clips that constitutes the clip chain; an interval adjusting rail for adjusting intervals of the plurality of clips; and interval adjusting links that couple neighboring clips among the plurality of clips and contact with the interval adjusting rail to adjust the intervals of the plurality of clips. According to the film stretching machine, a stretch degree of a film can be adjusted with a simple configuration and little man-hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Satoru Nitta, Noriyuki Ohbuchi, Yoshihisa Ikeda, Hiromu Saijyo
  • Patent number: 8973304
    Abstract: A holding jig (1, 2, 3) for a thin cylindrical work (W) includes a holding member (10, 10A, 10B) which holds the work (W) from an inner peripheral side and a diameter changing unit (25, 27) which changes a diameter of the holding member (10, 10A, 10B). The holding member (10, 10A, 10B) is made of metal and has a cylindrical shape and an elastically expandable or contractible diameter. The holding member (10, 10A, 10B) is configured with an outside diameter of the holding member (10, 10A, 10B) being held smaller than an inside diameter of the work (W) at the time of insertion into an inner periphery of the work (W) and being expanded after inserted into the inner periphery of the work (W) to hold the work (W) from an inner peripheral side of the work (W) with an outer peripheral surface in close contact with an entire inner peripheral surface of the work (W).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Tadamasa Furuya
  • Patent number: 8579621
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a high-quality porous film. Here, while the porous film is being manufactured through forming micropores by stretching, a raw film is prevented from slipping on the surfaces of the respective rolls as much as possible even though the raw film includes oil or liquid paraffin as a solvent. The method is for manufacturing a porous film through forming micropores by successive biaxial stretching. A tensile force applied to the raw film F transferring from the longitudinal stretching machine (10) to the transverse stretching machine (50) is set not less than a stretching force necessary for the longitudinal stretching, and thus the raw film is prevented from slipping on a contact surface between the raw film and each roll of the longitudinal stretching machine (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Satoru Nitta
  • Patent number: 8535588
    Abstract: Clipping both right and left side edge parts of a sheet or film by right and left pitch-variable clips having flow-directional clip pitches variable along with travel movements, respectively, having positions (AR, AL) for initiation of enlargements of flow-directional clip pitches changed between right clips and left clips, and enlarging flow-directional clip pitches along with travel movements of clips to thereby make an oblique stretch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Satoru Nitta, Hiromu Saijyo
  • Publication number: 20120282362
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a high-quality porous film. Here, while the porous film is being manufactured through forming micropores by stretching, a raw film is prevented from slipping on the surfaces of the respective rolls as much as possible even though the raw film includes oil or liquid paraffin as a solvent. The method is for manufacturing a porous film through forming micropores by successive biaxial stretching. A tensile force applied to the raw film F transferring from the longitudinal stretching machine (10) to the transverse stretching machine (50) is set not less than a stretching force necessary for the longitudinal stretching, and thus the raw film is prevented from slipping on a contact surface between the raw film and each roll of the longitudinal stretching machine (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi SANO, Satoru NITTA
  • Patent number: 8297965
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch roll (211) including: a center rotary shaft (20); fixed end plates (28, 29) concentrically disposed in two places which are away from each other in an axial direction of the center rotary shaft; an external cylinder (40) made of a metal-made thin film and rotatably supported, at two ends thereof, by the respective fixed end plates, the external cylinder being concentric with the center rotary shaft; and multiple rolling rubber rolls (70) each rotatably supported, at two ends thereof, by the respective fixed end plates, the plurality of rolling rubber rolls being in sliding contact with an outer peripheral surface of the center rotary shaft, and being in sliding contact with an inner peripheral surface of the external cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Takashi Hirose, Tomonori Fuchigami
  • Patent number: 8286313
    Abstract: A clip support member 30 has a first shaft member 51 cantilevered by guide rollers 56 and 56 for a guiding along a reference rail with a recessed channel 101, the clip support member 30 being provided with a slider 40 having a second shaft member 52 cantilevered by guide rollers 57 and 57 for a guiding along a pitch setting rail 120 with a recessed channel 121, the clip support member 30 supporting a clip 20 at an end thereof, where it has the first shaft member 51, whereto one end of a main link member 53 and one end of a sub-link member 54 are pivotally connected, to constitute a reference linkage at the clip 20 end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Satoru Nitta, Hiromu Saijyo
  • Patent number: 8287267
    Abstract: A sheet forming apparatus includes a first roll, a second roll configured to sandwich molten resin extruded from a die in cooperation with the first roll, a coupling member provided to be revolvable around a rotation center axis of the second roll, a third roll provided rotatably on the coupling member and configured to sandwich the resin conveyed along an outer periphery of the second roll in cooperation with the second roll, and a coupling member supporter configured to support the coupling member at an intermediate part of the coupling member so as to allow the coupling member to revolve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Masaru Taguchi, Takashi Hirose
  • Patent number: 8252218
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a high-quality porous film. Here, while the porous film is being manufactured through forming micropores by stretching, a raw film is prevented from slipping on the surfaces of the respective rolls as much as possible even though the raw film includes oil or liquid paraffin as a solvent. The method is for manufacturing a porous film through forming micropores by successive biaxial stretching. A tensile force applied to the raw film F transferring from the longitudinal stretching machine (10) to the transverse stretching machine (50) is set not less than a stretching force necessary for the longitudinal stretching, and thus the raw film is prevented from slipping on a contact surface between the raw film and each roll of the longitudinal stretching machine (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Satoru Nitta
  • Patent number: 8241192
    Abstract: A sheet or film-forming roll 10 includes an inner cylinder member 20 having axial parts 21, 22 provided on both sides thereof and rotatably supported by bearing parts 26, 27 through the axial parts 21, 22, a rubber roll 40 fitted to an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder member 20, eccentric side plates 53, 54 rotatably fitted to the axial parts 21, 22 of the inner cylinder member 20 respectively, and an elastic outer cylinder member 50 rotatably supported by the eccentric side plates 53, 54. The elastic outer cylinder member 50, which is provided with a thin-walled structure and made from metal, has an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the rubber roll 40 to accommodate the rubber roll 40 in an interior 68 thereof, and has inner circumferential surface 50A coming into contact with an outer circumferential surface 40A of the rubber roll 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Tadamasa Furuya, Takehiro Yamamoto, Satoru Nitta, Koji Mizunuma, Takashi Hirose
  • Patent number: 8182256
    Abstract: By provision of a plurality of rolling rubber rolls 70 each adapted for a sliding contact with an outer circumferential surface of a central rotational shaft 20 and a sliding contact with an inner circumferential surface of an outer tube 40, an annular space between the central rotational shaft 20 and the outer tube 40 is divided by the rolling rubber rolls 70 in the circumferential direction into a plurality of heat medium chambers 91, 92, 93, and 94, the plurality of heat medium chambers being each respectively configured for individual conduction of heat medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Daichi Yukawa
  • Publication number: 20120068376
    Abstract: A rail support device installed in a clip chain type sheet stretching apparatus configured to stretch a sheet includes a first rail support member, a second rail support member, and an arc shaped rail support member. The arc shaped rail support member is engaged with each of the connecting portions of the first and second rail support members to form a higher pair. The rail support device is symmetrical with respect to an intersection angle bisecting plane which is a plane developing in a vertical direction and including an intersection angle bisector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Satoru Nitta, Hiromu Saijyo
  • Publication number: 20120065041
    Abstract: A holding jig (1, 2, 3) for a thin cylindrical work (W) includes a holding member (10, 10A, 10B) which holds the work (W) from an inner peripheral side and a diameter changing unit (25, 27) which changes a diameter of the holding member (10, 10A, 10B). The holding member (10, 10A, 10B) is made of metal and has a cylindrical shape and an elastically expandable or contractible diameter. The holding member (10, 10A, 10B) is configured with an outside diameter of the holding member (10, 10A, 10B) being held smaller than an inside diameter of the work (W) at the time of insertion into an inner periphery of the work (W) and being expanded after inserted into the inner periphery of the work (W) to hold the work (W) from an inner peripheral side of the work (W) with an outer peripheral surface in close contact with an entire inner peripheral surface of the work (W).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Tadamasa Furuya
  • Publication number: 20120038080
    Abstract: A film stretching machine includes a clip chain for holding a lateral edge of a film and stretches the film while transporting the film with the clip chain holding the film and traveling, and includes an upper reference rail disposed at an upper side for guiding the clip chain; a lower reference rail disposed at a lower side for guiding the clip chain; a plurality of clips that constitutes the clip chain; an interval adjusting rail for adjusting intervals of the plurality of clips; and interval adjusting links that couple neighboring clips among the plurality of clips and contact with the interval adjusting rail to adjust the intervals of the plurality of clips. According to the film stretching machine, a stretch degree of a film can be adjusted with a simple configuration and little man-hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Satoru Nitta, Noriyuki Ohbuchi, Yoshihisa Ikeda, Hiromu Saijyo
  • Patent number: 8070468
    Abstract: A sheet film forming roll includes a center rotary shaft. Fixed end plates are disposed in two locations which are away from each other in an axial direction of the center rotary shaft, respectively. An external cylinder is made of a metal thin film. Two ends of the external cylinder are rotatably supported by the fixed end plates, respectively. Multiple rolling rubber rolls have ends which are rotatably supported by the respective fixed end plates. The rolling rubber rolls are in sliding contact with an outer peripheral surface of the center rotary shaft, and in sliding contact with an inner peripheral surface of the external cylinder. The rolling rubber rolls divide an annular space between the external cylinder and the center rotary shaft into multiple heating medium chambers arranged in a circumferential direction of the sheet film forming roll. A heating medium is configured to be filled in each of the multiple heating medium chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sano, Takashi Hirose, Tatsuaki Miyazaki